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| author | Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> | 2007-04-14 02:04:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> | 2007-04-14 02:04:53 +0000 |
| commit | 1684783c398a761de0d12c9651e95bf80f6e47c1 (patch) | |
| tree | d4a68b68e173e208b3b163da1c69f1fde09d9c76 | |
| parent | 1949862cdf0e63e3347983602d51549b9e2944bf (diff) | |
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document new version suffix style #166522
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diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5 index 0ebf0e11d..892824bc1 100644 --- a/man/ebuild.5 +++ b/man/ebuild.5 @@ -185,8 +185,8 @@ The base atom is just a full category/packagename. Hence, these are base atoms: .TP .B Atom Versions It is nice to be more specific and say that only certain versions of atoms are -acceptable. Note that versions must be combined with a prefix (see below). Hence -you may add a version number as a postfix to the base: +acceptable. Note that versions must be combined with a prefix (see below). +Hence you may add a version number as a postfix to the base: .nf sys\-apps/sed\fI\-4.0.5\fR @@ -195,11 +195,12 @@ net\-misc/dhcp\fI\-3.0_p2\fR .fi Versions are normally made up of two or three numbers separated by periods, such -as 1.2 or 4.5.2. This string may be followed by a character such as 1.2a or 4.5.2z. -Note that this letter is \fBnot\fR meant to indicate alpha, beta, etc... status. -For that, use the optional suffix; either _alpha, _beta, _pre (pre\-release), _rc -(release candidate), or _p (patch). This means for the 3rd pre\-release of a package, -you would use something like 1.2_pre3. +as 1.2 or 4.5.2. This string may be followed by a character such as 1.2a or +4.5.2z. Note that this letter is \fBnot\fR meant to indicate alpha, beta, +etc... status. For that, use the optional suffix; either _alpha, _beta, _pre +(pre\-release), _rc (release candidate), or _p (patch). This means for the +3rd pre\-release of a package, you would use something like 1.2_pre3. The +suffixes here can be arbitrarily chained without limitation. .TP .B Atom Prefix Operators [> >= = <= <] Sometimes you want to be able to depend on general versions rather than specifying |